CHILDREN’S HEALTH
WARNING BY PROFESSORS CONDITIONS IN FRANCE DANGER OF MALNUTRITION (United Preso Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 13 Professors Macheboeuf and Chavalier, scientific advisers to the Vichy Ministry of Food, warned Marshal Petain that unless vitamin A, in the form of codliver or halibut oil, is brought from America before January, the lives of three-quarters of all the children in France will be endangered from malnutrition or enhanced susceptibility to infectious diseases, reports a correspondent of the Times from the French frontier. The professors added that children’s resistance would be at its lowest next March.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21244, 15 October 1940, Page 7
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